Cream Legbars

[Lucky Lemon]

I'm pretty sure this is a female cream legbar... Can anyone confirm?

 

[ChicKat]

Here's the little 5 week old boy with the "mohawk"-ish thing - along with a pullet (hard to get a photo, they kept getting photo-bombed by German New Hampshires). Please ignore the dirty brooder - there's peat in the bedding (and I hope to move them outside this weekend).




And a couple photos of Joan (though I really can't seem to capture the audaciousness of her crest in these photos.) I thought these were fun because in one, she's being photobombed by two boys with miserable combs, and in the other, a boy in the back is showing off his straight comb... (These will be 12 weeks old this weekend.)




- Ant Farm

Love your chicks Ant Farm.... nice picts.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I'm pretty sure this is a female cream legbar... Can anyone confirm?

That doesn't look like a Cream Legbar at all to me...

- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Love your chicks Ant Farm.... nice picts.

They grow SOOOO fast!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Lucky Lemon]

That doesn't look like a Cream Legbar at all to me...

- Ant Farm 

Any ideas on breed? Hatched from a fairly small blue egg, I was told a cream legbar laid the egg...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Maybe an Easter egger or a CL cross with something? Maybe someone else will have an idea...

Edit to add: I'm certainly open to being wrong, but if it is a Cream Legbar, there are some major auto sexing issues with it...

 

[rottlady]

- Ant Farm

 

[Bantambird]

I'm pretty sure this is a female cream legbar... Can anyone confirm?

I don't think that little cutie is a cream Legbar. If it were female Legbar it would have more markings on its head, like eye lines and a stripe running from the forehead to the tail. It seems too yellow for the base color.

Edit- if it's a cross, you may not know till it grows out what it is crossed with unless the breeder knows. You might get an olive egger

 

[Lucky Lemon]

Maybe an Easter egger or a CL cross with something? Maybe someone else will have an idea...

Edit to add: I'm certainly open to being wrong, but if it is a Cream Legbar, there are some major auto sexing issues with it...

Thanks for your input! I'm new to the cream legbars and was really hoping it was one. It is super tiny in comparison to my other hatches from yesterday.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

What age does the crazy floppy comb show up? I suspect my guy will have something other than nice and straight because he has a small hitch in his now


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I'm not sure - it sort of snuck up on me. You could kind of tell a little earlier, but when they start really maturing, it fills out and "declares itself", Maybe 10 weeks or so for mine (to feel sure about it)? Now, at 12 weeks, I have a good sense of it - no idea if a straight appearing comb may turn later that this. I'm not a breeder/shower, and actually won't be keeping any of these boys, but I likely would never cull for a slightly crooked comb (I might for a nightmare comb, if I have a lot to choose from). It's likely that MAJOR issues with comb will show up earlier if you look. ChicKat (and others) can tell you better. My Dumbledore was rescued from ChicKat's soup pot because his comb turns some and isn't straight (which didn't bother me for my backyard birds, but didn't fit into her breeding plans).

- Ant Farm